so they posted some news about the new patch

[Triosta]

One would think the first one would be cloth... Plate would naturally be resistant to piercing because well, that's the point of wearing metal.

No, because all the weapons of the middle ages designed to combat plate armor were bashing and spiked. Swords were garbage against plate. This change, besides being odd by excluding cloth, makes no sense. They could have easily added magic damage types to include mages - fire(plate and leather is strong against fire, cloth is weak), ice(pierce), lightning(plate is weak to lightning), force(bludgeon) and earth(slash). Not to mention the damage fringes like necrotic energy damage or healing based damage.

[Celestrata Bloodsong]

um this patch better have the crate changes as well which aren't listed

I can confirm they're in there, and we're getting them.

[Justaguy]

I can confirm they're in there, and we're getting them.

If we grind up a lot of crates now, and open them after the patch.. Will we get the stones? I am trying to save up a load of crates now since double drop rate is going on.

Also, when does this patch happen?

[Muzzy]

We will be giving the exact contents of each crate type drop on tomrrow's livestream.

Any crates that you have in your inventory, unopened, will convert to these new crates after the patch. So open all your crates before the patch if you like the content it currently has.
^This answer was regarding the Prince's/Ancestral/Etc Crate. Sorry for the confusion and is correct for them, but not for metallic crates.

Regarding Metallic Crates. Old and new crates are different IDs, and because of this, your old crates in your inventory will remain as the old crate contents.

[Muzzy]

Piercing (Stronger vs Plate) – Swords, Spears
Slashing (Stronger vs Leather) – Dagger, Katana/Nodachi
Crushing (Stronger vs Plate) – Axes, Clubs, Scepter/Staff


Is this typo or is plate now weak against 3/4 of the weapons in the game?

Can confirm that this is not a typo. What you see is correct.

[Muzzy]

Also @Trion if they are reading this - will this update include the "snap to grid" planting we saw previews of with Korea?

Yes. Planting Assist is coming in this patch.

[SansaStark]

Can confirm that this is not a typo. What you see is correct.

So why is plate basically nerfed and it's already the worst in the game? How is this the rock/paper/scissor if Cloth is not affected by anything.

[Gamepro03]

So why is plate basically nerfed and it's already the worst in the game? How is this the rock/paper/scissor if Cloth is not affected by anything.

Keep in mind that these bonuses are probably like they are in Korea- a 50% chance to do 15% more damage versus the type of armor it's good against. Also keep in mind that this is primarily about Melee skills, and applies nothing to magic damage.

For these reasons, Cloth is excluded in these bonuses because cloth already has the lowest Physical Defense values, and would be even further hurt. Also Plate is included in more of these bonuses because it has the highest Physical Defense values.

[saltminer]

So why is plate basically nerfed and it's already the worst in the game? How is this the rock/paper/scissor if Cloth is not affected by anything.

So you've never seen an argent or other cancer in arena?

[Horseradish]

3,580 Charcoal that can potentially be added to the economy every day from Delphinad Ghost Ships.
It's additional 15k to free farming player nations every day. Are you serious?